tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post7914437074081687482..comments2016-12-09T17:12:45.472-05:00Comments on In the Middle: Coming Unstuck in Time: Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoriography Redux, Part IJeffrey Cohenhttps://plus.google.com/110433684739546897626noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-49812394889111102332009-01-31T13:15:00.000-05:002009-01-31T13:15:00.000-05:00Karl, thanks for the film recommendations, and als...Karl, thanks for the film recommendations, and also for the further food for thought regarding a taxonomy of violence [between the more mass- and more individually oriented types of violence: Freud, of course, referred to war as a type of nonsexual sadism].Eileen Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-54834669162958231782009-01-28T10:02:00.000-05:002009-01-28T10:02:00.000-05:00Finally made the space to read this, and I'll be v...Finally made the space to read this, and I'll be very interested to see where it goes.<BR/><BR/>On the question of violence. I wonder if you've ever seen <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038577/" REL="nofollow"><I>Green for Danger,</I></A> an utterly brilliant murder mystery set in an England being bombarded by German V2 rockets in the last days of the war. Towards the opening, someone is killed by a rocket, but that death is not, of course, the object of investigation for the mystery. We have, then, a split between the mindlessness of mass mechanical violence [since, iirc, the rockets could barely be targeted: they were far more random than bombing] and a deliberate, personal violence driven by economic and psychic needs. The former may understood as a symptom of civilization, but the latter, the game of the parlor mystery, is <I>civilized.</I> If you catch my drift. With that in mind, I propose a taxonomic split between the violence of Dresden and the personal violence of/against Billy. The former destroys all selves, but the latter maintains us, in the action and in the suffering, in our networks of individuality. It is fundamentally erotic in a way that Dresden, or the V2 rockets, are not.<BR/><BR/>(btw, on time travel, can I recommend a movie by a guy I know? <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479162/" REL="nofollow"><I>Special</I></A>: I have to admit I haven't yet seen it, but it does have some time travel stuff in it, and I understand it's supposed to be good)Karl Steelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com